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Re: XProc for the XSLT developer

• From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
• To: Max Toro <maxtoroq@gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 13:48:49 -0400

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 13:30 -0400, Max Toro wrote:
> As a hardcore XSLT fan I'm not too excited about XProc, maybe I'm
> missing something.

You could think of xproc as replacing a "runme" shell script or batch
file, or a Makefile, that calls XSLT maybe multiple times.

For example
(1) run XSLT on the input with gather-parts.xsl
(2) run xinclude processing
(3) validate
(4) run XSLT on the result using simplify.xsl
(5) run XSLT again, using make-html.xsl

So, XProc is not competing with XSLT in any way.

Liam

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  • XProc for the XSLT developer
    • From: Max Toro <maxtoroq@gmail.com>